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Some Girls is a Brit Com that debuted in 2012 and ran for three seasons.

The series revolves around four sixth-formers: only sane woman Viva, delinquent Holli, maths geek Saz, and Cloudcuckoolander Amber. The show is driven by the girls having sex, trying to get/drop boyfriends, or coping with their evil PE teacher from New Zealand (who also happens to be Viva's stepmother).

Much of the show's humour comes from the fact that it Crosses the Line Twice; there is so much swearing, it stops being unoriginal and becomes funny. The same could be said about the sexual content.

This series provides examples of:

A-Cup Angst: While not flat-chested, Amber is upset over having smaller breasts than Charlie.

Adults Are Useless: Zig-zagged. While we don't see many of the adults in their lives outside Viva's father and stepmother, we do learn that Holli's mother is a neglectful drug addict, and the principal is more concerned with her chocolate stash than the student body. Viva and Jamie have a very close and loving relationship with their dad, but don't always see eye to eye with him. Mr. Jefferies, the choir teacher, likes to see himself as a Stern Teacher and Reasonable Authority Figure, but Holli tends to get the better of him.

All Girls Want Bad Boys: Amber and her on-off boyfriend Brandon. He's not too bright, lacks any emotional maturity, and often makes excuses with I'm a Man, I Can't Help It. It's totally off now as Brandon has apparently abandoned Amber and she found solid evidence of his cheating.

Viva and Rocky as well. Like Brandon, he's a bit shaky on all fronts, but has good intentions at heart.

All Guys Want Cheerleaders: The four main female characters are all footballers, whilst their arch-enemies are cheerleaders. One of the storylines is that Amber's boyfriend ditches her for the head cheerleader, and there is plenty of complaining about how large said cheerleader's breasts are.

Big Entrance: Charlie and the cheerleaders show up to the prom in a massive pink limo. Everyone at school gawks in awe of them...until Viva and the gang arrive in Rob's fire engine (squadron truck). Everyone immediately turns towards the gang.

Big Man on Campus: Tyler Blaine, who is the head boy at school and he's smart, charming, and arrogant. Even Anna takes a fancy to him.

Big Screwed-Up Family: Holli has a Hair-Trigger Temper, her father is in prison for animal fighting, her mother is mentally absent, and she's stuck raising her siblings Prada, Louis Vuitton, Armani, and Smelly. It's amazing she isn't even more screwed up.

Brainy Brunette: Viva, whose biggest dream is to become a psychologist, and Saz, whose favorite subject is Maths.

Brick Joke: The episodes often end with something happening during the closing credits that had been set up earlier. In one episode Amber suspects her new boyfriend of having a secret: "He's got a tattoo of a rose on his chest. I looked it up online - it means he's in the RUSSIAN MAFIA!". At the end of the episode, after her boyfriend's secret turns out to be something entirely different, he is shown walking along a street shouting angrily into a phone in russian. "Nyet! Nyet! Tovarich."

Council Estate: All four main leads live in the same council estate in south London. In contrast to other shows, the neighborhood is diverse and quite working class (Rob is a firefighter) and fairly nicer than most depictions.

Viva: Just because we live on an estate, we're not all single mums or drug problems...though obviously, some of us are.

Girly Bruiser: Amber. She's the sweetest and girliest of the gang but she's also a damn good football player.

Hair-Trigger Temper: Holli, whose violent outbursts are so legendary, that she makes everyone run for the hills. She once threw a toilet out the window during one of these.

Saz reacts angrily to anything she perceives as a slight. Like telling her little sister to shut up for coughing. (She also once slammed Holli's head into a table, but that's justified as Holli told Saz's crush at point blank that Saz was a virgin and wanted to bone him, further humiliating Saz, who had been crying about the matter earlier.)

Hidden Depths: Holli is prone to violence and Tough Love, but she genuinely loves her siblings and ghostwrote a surprisingly popular advice column in the school paper for extra credit.

Amber has watched enough episodes of Call the Midwife to identify the fact Anna goes into labor early.

Rocky isn't too bright or ambitious, but he makes a surprisingly excellent babysitter for Jellybean. He's also more than happy to let Viva take the lead in their relationship.

Hopeless Auditionees: The cheerleaders audition for the school talent show as a dance act and they're absolutely terrible. Not only that, Holli sabotaged their heels, causing them to collapse on the ground.

Hot for Teacher: Holli, over the counselor hired after the death of Mr. Andrews.

Laser-Guided Karma: In revenge for Charlie's bullying of Amber and causing tension among the girls, Holli sabotages Charlie's dance group's heels, causing them to spectacularly fail their talent contest audition. Holli takes pictures and posts them all over the school.

Middle Child Syndrome: Saz, who comes from a large Sikh family and has three sisters. Her temper and snark is her way to trying to make herself stand out.

No Social Skills: Saz admits her social skills are poor and she does try...but her patience is non-existent.

Not Hyperbole: The humour occasionally falls under this. Case in point: the gang watches Amber compete in a football trial when Viva spots one of Saz's crushes cuddling up to a girl.

Viva: Saz, don't look now, but Omar's there and he's snuggled up to Emma O'Brien. Saz: Why is Omar snuggled up to Emma O'Brien? Holli: Because he's dunking his Twix in her latte. Saz: Oh God, why do you have to be so dirty, Holli? Viva: She's not. He really is dunking his Twix in her latte.

Oh Crap!: After breaking into Brandon's house to find out where he's been, the girls has this reaction when they realize that his mother is home. She's a nurse who works the night shift and needs sleeping pills to sleep during the day. She already loathes Amber's mere existence, so she's especially enraged when she sees the girls have stolen her alcohol and destroyed her door.

Parental Abandonment: Holli's father is in prison and her mother spends so much time out of it in a drug or pill-induced haze, she might as well not exist.

Parental Neglect: Rocky is ignored by his parents, so when he falls for Viva, he's absolutely charmed by her stable home life. He easily bonds with Rob and looks to him as a father figure.

Parents Walk In at the Worst Time: The finale of the first season had Rob and Anna returning to vacation and discovering the girls in various stages of undress with boys.

Parent with New Paramour: Viva's father Rob and Anna, who also happens to be Viva's football coach. No mention is made of Viva and Jamie's mother and Viva alternates between complaining about Anna and putting up with her for Rob's sake.

Anna's constant berating of Jamie for chronically masturbating in public wins her a few points in Viva's book, and by the time Anna has given birth, Viva appears to have grudgingly come around.

Primal Scene: How Viva discovered Rob and Anna's relationship: she walked in on Anna humping him. Luckily, they were both clothed, but still awkward for Viva.

Promotion to Parent: Holli seems to be in charge of raising all her siblings, since her dad is in jail, and her mum takes so many drugs she doesn't even understand Bob the Builder.

Put on a Bus: Brandon's absence is explained away as having abruptly abandoned all contact with Amber and has been cheating on her.

Stepford Snarker: Saz is actually quite lonely and struggles to make herself stand out, so she hides behind her sarcasm and anger.

Strange Minds Think Alike: Rocky makes a trail of rose petals to the bedroom as a romantic gesture. Viva thinks it's cute while Rocky thinks it's a bit sexy. When Amber sees the set up, she immediately echoes Viva and Rocky's sentiments.

Team Mom: Viva takes it upon herself to help her friends and herself navigate their way through life.

Technical Virgin: Holli's main reason for not having sex is because she didn't want to be a teenage mother like her own. She's open to experimenting, but refuses to do anything that might result in pregnancy.

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